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After a long, miserable winter we can finally enjoy the great outdoors again – except due to the harsh elements your home has been exposed to during the cold season, there’s nothing great about the outside of your property.

The freezing cold and bitter winds of winter don’t exactly provide the ideal conditions for maintaining the outside of your home, but now that spring has come around, the mild weather presents the perfect time to tend to the upkeep of your property’s exterior.

You’ve finally gotten round to fitting in a new kitchen and you can now tick off ‘remodelled bathroom’ off your DIY checklist – but have you ever thought about making over your staircase? Check out our how-to guide for stylish steps with the following, erm, steps:

Kids – they grow up so fast, don’t they? Soon they’re taking their first steps, uttering their first words, and before you know it, they’ve outgrown their clothes, certain habits and…furniture. The beloved cot that’s humbly served as your baby’s sleeping spot is now just a memory of how your child is no longer a baby – so does that mean your baby’s former resting place is no longer of good use as a cot? Not necessarily...

Pets – no matter how much we spoil them and give them the finer things in life, chances are they’ll choose a cardboard box over a plush bed any day. But for those hard to please pets, we have a solution – in the form of some very inspirational and imaginative methods of upcycling household items into their new favourite furnishings.

If the spark has gone from your love of the fireplace, let us show you how to reignite your passion with this inventive and ingenious DIY hack: and paint a lifeless-looking brick fireplace into a bold, standout work of art. All you need is the correct set of tools and materials, a creative eye, a passion for DIY and patience – after all, good things come to those who ‘follow our guide to painting a brick fireplace’…

Are your walls looking a bit bare? Guilty of leaving various Post-it notes scattered around here and there for those spur of the moment reminders? Then let us recommend a creative solution – DIY message boards.

From the cabinets and dressers to the desks and armoires in your home, it’s safe to say you’ve amassed an impressive selection of storage facilities. But while your ground space seems to be severely lacking in…space, get inspired by those blank walls of yours. Look up – and think of the possible stylish storage options available you can have using upper furnishings such as shelves! So, without further ado, we present to you a hand-picked collection of ingenious handmade storage solutions.

That collector’s item in the form of a vintage dresser looked like a great bargain at the time, right? Or what about that beautiful chest of drawers you snapped up for a fraction of the original price at last week’s car boot sale? Now you’ve bought your dream furnishings and moved them into your home, you’ve come to the horrible realisation that not only are they a nuisance what with them taking up valuable storage space, but they’re not as aesthetically-pleasing as you initially thought. Nightmare.

Seeing as you can’t return them, it looks like you’re now stuck with these decorative disasters – but don’t worry, as there’s still hope for these items. Learn how you can makeover these monstrosities into must-have children’s toys – it really is child’s play!